Re: Kernel 2.3.49/51 and exec permissions

[willy@thepuffingroup.com]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 06:20:30PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> The Doctor What <docwhat@gerf.org> writes:
> 
> > but not if I try to sudo to a non-root id (this is as root, note the #):
> > bash-2.04# sudo -u man bash
> > sudo: unable to exec /bin/bash: Permission denied
> 
>      This doesn't affect your main question, but you are using the
> wrong syntax for sudo.  The -u option takes a username/uid argument.
> Your command is telling sudo to run bash as user man, who doesn't
> exist.  sudo is normally run by a user (not root) who is listed in the
> file /etc/sudoers.

debian has man as uid number 6.